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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, October 19, 2017

COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND

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ANOTHER COOPERSTOWN ICON QUITS DOWNTOWN

GENERAL STORE CLOSING DOORS By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN Parker Fish/The Freeman’s Journal

John Quick of Oneonta walks Chica, a 7year-old Olde English bulldog during the Susquehanna Animal Shelter’s third annual Doubleday Doggie Walk Sunday, Oct. 15, in downtown Cooperstown.

League Plans 3 Rep Debates On Same Night

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he League of Women Voters is sponsoring three debates at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30, for county Board of Representatives candidates in the Nov. 7 election: • District 5, Republican Meg Kennedy vs. Democrat Pat Kennedy, Hartwick Community Center. • District 7, Republican David Bliss vs. Democrat Leslie Berliant, Otsego Town Hall, Fly Creek. • District 8, Democrat Andrew Marietta vs. Republican Tim Walker, also Otsego Town Hall. Town candidates will also participate. RABID BAT: The County Department of Health is reporting an individual is being treated with a series of vaccinations after being bit by a bat that turned out to be rabid in the Town of Richfield/DETAILS, A3 RIBBON CUTTING: Senator Jim Seward, R-Milford, will cut the ribbon on the West 1566 Community Center in the old American Legion building in Milford at 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 20.

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ou really could find anything at the Cooperstown General Store. “When I was a kid, I saw this movie, ‘The Manster,’ about a man BIG SALE who gets stranded on an island, and a mad doctor begins growing this creature on the other half of him,” said Mayor Jeff Katz. “It stayed with me for years, but I could never THE GENERAL STORE find it anywhere.” is opening Thursday, One afternoon, Oct. 19, for “our bigwhile browsing at gest sale ever!” For the General Store, he photos, check that day at found “The Manster” www.AllOTSEGO.com on DVD for $1. “It was like a gift from God,” he said. “I watched it, and it still scared me!” “The Manster” era is ending. Over the weekend, customers received Please See CLOSING, A3

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For more than two decades, the Cooperstown General Store, 43-57 Main St., next to the Hall of Fame, has offered locals and visitors a little bit of everything. Here, veteran store manager Ron Jex adjusts the flag display in advance of 911 commemorations in 2016.

REMEMBER THE PIONEERS!

Cooperstown Troop Already Lets Girls Join Boy Scouts By PARKER FISH COOPERSTOWN

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or the first time in the Boy Scouts’ 107-year history, girls will be allowed to join the ranks.

Sports Stars Frequent Pioneer Patio

Turns out that’s nothing new for Cooperstown’s By LIBBY CUDMORE Troop 1254. For them, girls have always played a vital role in their scouting experi- COOPERSTOWN ence, says Head Scoutmaster ich Busse’s Pioneer Patio has a Hank Nicols. reputation for being laid back, “Troop 1254 has been sometimes a little too relaxed. Please See SCOUTS, A2

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“I had a waitress come to me to tell me that there was a man with his feet up on the table,” said Busse. “He was on his cell phone, so I gestured for him to take them down, and he did. Later, when he paid his bill, I looked down at his credit card, and it was Wayne Gretzky!” Please See PIONEER, A2

When Mr. Nazi Came To Town 50 Years Before Charlottesville, Va., ‘Rambunctious’ Crowd Filled SUNY’s Old Main, Heckled George Lincoln Rockwell By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA

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harlottesville has nothing on Oneonta. Fifty years ago last

December, the Nazis came to town. “Here was a person, head of the American Nazi party, who was against everything we stood for. But we felt free speech was important to democracy,” recalled Emile

B. Gurstelle, now a Ph.D. and a principal in Wayne Psychological Group, LLC, a thriving practice in Butler, N.J. On the evening of Dec. 12, 1966, then a SUNY Oneonta This photo of George Lincoln Rockwell, junior and a member of the founder of the American Nazi Party, was Please See NAZI, A7 taken about the time he visited Oneonta.

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD


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